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by phonon 1760 days ago
It's not so secret.

The intel 670p (using 3D4 QLC) can do 370 TB of writes for the 1 TB model. [1] That makes it terrible for a DB, but perfectly fine for a media server. And other than the limit on total writes, it's overall a good performer at an affordable price. It also does clever things in converting some of QLC to SLC as a variably sized cache, so that smaller, more ephemeral written data doesn't affect it as much. [2]

If you want high endurance, you can get an Optane drive, like [3] which can do 17.52 PB on a similarly sized drive.

[1] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/204109/...

[2] https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-ssd-670p-m-2-nvme...

[3] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/147529/...